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To jabber is to talk quickly, in an rush, so the words run together and are hard to follow. English uses it with a little : the speaker is not the talk, they are tired of the noise, or they cannot catch the meaning. Parents say it of children; you might say it of someone who will not slow down. It can also be a noun: the jabber in the hallway. There is a ruder stretch, which you should handle with care: some people say a language they do not understand is “jabber.” That use treats another person’s speech as leftover sound, and it can sound . The word is informal. In a calm or polite sentence, talk, chatter, or speak too fast is safer. It is not a neutral word for “have a conversation.”
嘰哩呱啦、又快又含糊地講（嫌人吵、聽不清楚）。
組成From older English words for chatter and babble, tied to the old word for the jaw (the same family as jowl) plus -er, “do it again and again.” So the picture is “keep the jaw going.”
同家族的字
- jowlfrom the old word for jaw; jabber is “keep the jaw moving”
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
jabberverb詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒæbə(ɹ)/
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To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
- 1829, James Hogg, The Shepherd’s Calendar, New York: A.T. Goodrich, Volume I, Chapter 9, “Mary Burnet,” p. 184, Allanson made some sound in his throat, as if attempting to speak, but his tongue refused its office, and he only jabbered.
- “What are you jabbering about, shipmate?” said I.
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To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
- She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.
- He wept very little, but when he wept he howled aloud, and jabbered wild abuse, threats and recriminations through the wet torrent of his howling.
jabbernoun詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒæbə(ɹ)/
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Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
- 1735, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, edited by George Faulkner, Dublin, 1735, Volume 3, A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson, pp. v-vi, And, is there less Probability in my Account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many Thousands even in this City, who only differ from their Brother Brutes in Houyhnhnmland, because they use a Sort of a Jabber, and do not go naked.
- Two tongues from the depths, Alike only as a yellow cat and a green parrot are alike, Fling their staccato tantalizations Into a wildcat jabber Over a gossamer web of unanswerables.
jabbernoun詞源 2/ˈd͡ʒæbə(ɹ)/
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One who or that which jabs.
- Have the boys box, one jabbing and the other practicing the methods of boxing a jabber.
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informalOne who administers a hypodermic injection.
- Like Claire, these “secret jabbers” are keeping it private even from their closest family and friends.
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A kind of hand-operated corn planter.
- The jabber was the most popular hand-operated corn planter ever devised. […] Inset shows jaws closed for jabbing (left) and open for depositing kernels (right).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。